Sentence examples for element of fortune from inspiring English sources

Yes, there was an element of fortune.

Luck implies an element of fortune, and of destiny.

The decisive moment, Eric Djemba-Djemba's winner, also carried a sizable element of fortune.

There was an element of control, in that he realised he was in trouble and so twisted the bat for an uppercut, but there was a bigger element of fortune.

One run later Ashwell Prince became another Herath scalp, although there was an element of fortune about the departure as the ball came off the batsman's back pad and flicked the bat on its way to Jayawardene.

Guardiola's body language on the touchline certainly did not offer the impression of a man who liked what he saw and there was a considerable element of fortune about the game's decisive moment when Paddy McNair, one of the Sunderland substitutes, turned a right-wing cross into his own net.

With a mixture of innovation, extraordinary bat speed and elements of fortune, Buttler, who came to the crease at number seven for the final ball of the 46th over rather than in the 30th over at number six in Sunday's defeat at Southampton, was on the verge of the fastest fifty in ODI history.

Conscious as she was of the vagaries of fame and the element of chance in any fortune, she would have viewed that with a certain irony, but she would also have found it deeply pleasing.

And sure Melbourne rode their luck, with both of their goals having an element of good fortune.

If there had been, ultimately, an element of good fortune about that opening goal, the quick and fluent movement of the build-up merited the reward.

And whilst Van Persie accepts there was an element of good fortune about his effort, the former Arsenal man recognises it was a special strike.